Improved vessel for refrigerating liquids



. CARTER & ORCUTT.

Beer Cooler.

Patented Oct. 4. 864.

Inventor:

Witnesses:

AM. PHOTO -LITHECQNY. (USEORNE'S FROM-255.),

UNITE JOHN V. B. CARTER AND CHARLES F. ORCUTT, OF ALBANY, NEW YORK.

IMPROVED VESSEL FOR. REFRIGERATING LIQUIDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. fl L-SIM, dated October 4, 1864.

To all whom it may concern: chamber in such manner that it shall not stir e it known that we, JOHN V. B. CARTER up the sediment therein, as will be hereinafter and'OHARLEs F. ORCUTT, both of Albany, described. county of Albany, and State of New York, Another object of our invention is to proave invented a new and Improved Vessel vide for attaching metallic pines to the refrigfor Refrigerating Liquids 5 and we do hereby erators, when they are made of earthenware, declare that the ollowing is a full, clear, and so that apermanent and tight joint can be exact description thereof, reference being had readily and cheaply made as will be hereinto the accompanyingdrawings, making apart after described of this specification, in Which To enable others skilled in the art to make igure lisaverticalcentralsection through and use our invention, we will describe its a cooler having a single liquid-vessels, surconstruction and operation. rounding an ice-chamber. Fig. 2 is a horin the acompanyingdrawings,Arepresents zontalseetion through Fig. 1. Fig. 3isatop the outer wall of our refrigerator, and B View of Fig. 1. Figs. 4, 5, and 6 represent represents the inner wall thereof, which are ice-receptacle, B, and an annular liquid-receptacle, A, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The ice is introduced into the chamber 13 through an opening in its top, and this opening is then closed by the cover a, fitting tightly thereon. The ice-water can be drawn off from the chamber B by means of a pipe introduced into its bottom; or it may be drawn off at any other Similar letters of reference indicate cor-' responding parts in the several figures. 7 his invention relates to a new and ima pipe, 0, which leads down to the bottom of this chamber and communicates with a service-pipe, b, which is secured to the top of the refrigerator, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3. The opening d near the bottom of the pipe 0 is located at this point for two reasons viz., it conducts off the liquid which is at the lowest and consequently the coolest part of the chamof having the dirt and water of the ice mix her A, and being located above the bottom of with this liquid, as will be hereinafter desaid chamber, none of the sediment will be scribed. 1 carried off with the liquid. The opening d Another object of our invention is to so through the pipec is located near the top of arrange the servieepipe within one or more i this pipe for the purpose of conducting the liquid-chambers which surround an ice-chaml gas, which is above the liquid in chamber A, into and ofi' through the service-pipe b during the operation of drawing liquid through this pipe.

At a suitable distance belowthe end of inletpipes Z) a shelf, 9, is fixed, which is intended to break the force ot the liquid entering the chamber A, and prevent it from pouring diand receiving all the advantages which would arise from having the ice immersed in the liquid to be cooled without the disadvantages the act of drawing the same from the vessel, as will be hereinafter described.

forms permanently tight joints.

v or surrounded by the different liquids.

leaving only the pure liquid to be drawn off for use, while in coolers which have hitherto been used the liquidwessels is surrounded by a large body of ice, and the liquid forced through this vessel in a continuous stream, carrying with it all the sediment, 850. By surrounding the ice-chamber with the liquid to be cooled the apparatus can be made very compact and highly ornamented, at the same time the ice will rapidly cool the liquid impinging upon the chamber containing it.

to flow gently but freely down the sides of the outer vall, A. This shelf does not retard the flow of liquid through the inlet-pipe, but merely breaks its fall, for the purpose above stated.

In carrying out our invention we propose to make the refrigerators of earthenware, making the walls surrounding the chamber A very thick, so that the liquid in this chamber will remain cold very long. The inner and outer walls, as well as the shelf or bracket g, can all be made in one homogeneous piece, or they may be made in separate pieces and suitably cemented together.

When the reirlgerator is made of earthenware, as represented in the drawings, conical chambers h are formed on the outer surface of the outer wall, A, surrounding the openings through this wall through which the liquid is conducted into or out of the chamber A or B. The object of these conical recesses is to receive the tubes b I), which are formed with flanges i on their lower ends, as shown in Figs. 7 and 8. When the tubes 1) b are properly adjusted in their respective recesses, the latter are filled with cement, which hardens and not only secures the tubes in place, but

liquid to cool it, the ice is subjected not only to the warm sides of said vessel, but also to the warm sides of the vessel containingit. By our invention the result is different, and the ice cools the liquid surrounding it without melting very rapidly.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A refrigerator which is provided with an internal ice-chamber, B, an external liquid chamber or chambers, A, and inlet and discharge pipes b 1), arranged substantially as described. 2. The arrangement of a pipe, 0, within the chamber A, provided with openings near the bottom and a gas-vent near the top, substantially as described.

3. The combination of the inlet-pipe b with the internal pipe, 0, and external dischargepipe, b, substantially as described.

4. The bracket or shelf g, arranged in liquidchamber A beneath the inlet-pipe b, substantially as described.

5. The conical recessed projections formed on the outer surface of the wall A, in combination with the flanged tubes or couplingpipes, substantially as described.

6. The combination of the internal icechamber, B, with aseries of liquid-chambers arranged around it, each liquid-chamber being provided with an inlet-pipe and an outletpipe, substantially in the manner described.

JOHN V. B. CARTER. CHARLES F. OROUTT.

In Figs. 4, 5, and 6 we have represented a refrigerator which is constructed substantially like that of Fig. 1 above described, the difference in its construction being this: the liquid-chamber A is subdivided by partitions, O, and each subdivision is furnished with inlet and outlet passages b 0 b, as represented in Figs. 1 and 4. The ice-chamber B can be made somewhat larger in proportion to the size of the liquid-chambers, or the proportions may be such as we have shown in Fig. 1.

The advantages of having separate chambers surrounding a single ice-chamber are that several different kinds of liquid can be cooled and drawn oif for use from a single refrigerator using only one ice-chamber inclosed It will be seen from the above description of our invention that we obtain a cooling-trap for refrigerating and purifying the liquids Witnesses: which arepassed throughit; thatthe sediment J AMES A. MGKOWN, in the liquid is percipitated as it is cooled, H. J. MGKOWN. 

